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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:28:31 -0400 |
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> Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > Is this a problem with the English language? I thought I knew it |
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>> > inside- out, upside-down and back-to-front. I still think so. Yet |
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>> > your account has you tying yourself in knots over a known fault. |
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>> Too many uses of the insufficiently-explicit "the board"...but (in |
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>> English) such ambiguities are usually resolved by surrounding context. |
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> <evil thought> |
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> hey, here's an idea, let's fix that by using Hungarian decorators on all |
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> English nouns! |
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What, and get Esperanto? (Or Latin. Or Italian. Or Spanish.) |
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:wq |
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